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UNION TOWNSHIP, Pa. - A fundraiser is underway to help care for the animals at Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in Union Township. The nonprofit group "Friends of Hopewell Furnace" says ...
The snake, believed to be a red-tailed boa constrictor, is an exotic animal not native to Australia, and despite not being venomous, they pose a significant risk to the native wildlife.
She said: "This is exciting to us because it confirms that the genes and gene families that we identified using our comparative genomics approach really do cause an animal to have a woolly coat ...
While the list touched on a few of the animals seen in Florida, there are others more that you could eat if you wanted to (and prepare correctly). See which ones you could bring to your next potluck.
Was it a single extinction event or a series of catastrophic changes? Exactly which animals were affected? Here, we will look at the animals that lived on the Earth during one particular geological ...
Have you ever seen an animal with Blue Blood? While this may sound unusual, animals with blue blood do exist. While most vertebrates, including humans, have red blood cells due to hemoglobin ...
Its experts say reintroducing these animals to nature will be beneficial to the environment in many ways, even when it comes to climate change. De-extincting the woolly mammoth, for example ...
A Danish chef couple who set up up an eco-friendly retreat in Sweden left behind 158 barrels of human waste and abandoned their animals to die after fleeing the country's tax authorities. Nestled ...
Depends on who you ask, as Colossal's Beth Shapiro argued to New Scientist: "We are using the morphological species concept and saying, if they look like this animal, then they are the animal." ...
It’s likely you’ve never seen a ringtail. The nocturnal animal might be native to California but it’s elusive, preferring rural environments, and is chronically understudied. That’s even ...
It’s hard to predict which animals will transform like butterflies upon reaching adulthood. Some animals, like horses or antelopes, come out of the womb looking like miniature versions of their fully ...